We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.